What are the legal and ethical considerations to obtaining informed consent for the patient for surgery?

A patient is having a nonemergent surgical procedure.
What are the legal and ethical considerations to obtaining informed consent for the patient for surgery?
How do you obtain informed consent from an incompetent patient or a minor?
Can an emancipated minor consent for him- or herself?
What are the legal and ethical considerations to obtaining informed consent for the patient for surgery?
How do you obtain informed consent from an incompetent patient or a minor?
Can an emancipated minor consent for him- or herself?

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